Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 59:3
Without any provocation or cause given them by me. I am a sinner before thee, O Lord, but I have done them no injury.
Without any provocation or cause given them by me. I am a sinner before thee, O Lord, but I have done them no injury.
Verse Psalms 59:3. _FOR, LO, THEY LIE IN WAIT FOR MY SOUL_] For my _life_. See the passages referred to above....
FOR, LO, THEY LIE IN WAIT FOR MY SOUL - They lie in wait as wild beasts do for their prey, ready to spring upon it. The word used here is often employed to denote the act of lying in ambush; of watchi...
Psalms 59 Gentile Enmity Against Israel _ 1. Surrounded by nations (Psalms 59:1)_ 2. Their judgment anticipated (Psalms 59:9) Another Michtam of David when he was persecuted by Saul. While in prev...
LIX. The Ps. seems to be directed against Jewish and not foreign enemies. It might well be a prayer for the downfall of the aristocratic Sadducees. On the other hand in Psalms 59:5 and Psalms 59:8 the...
SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. TRANSGRESSION. rebellion. Hebrew. _pasha'._ SIN. Hebrew. _chata'._ LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4....
The Psalmist prays for deliverance from the enemies who are bent on taking his life, pleading his innocence, and appealing to God to punish all injustice....
For, lo, strong ones have laid wait for my life, They gather themselves together against me, For no transgression or sin of mine, Jehovah. For no iniquity (of mine) they run and station themselves:...
THE MIGHTY ARE GATHERED AGAINST ME— _The mighty are turned aside to lay snares against me._ See Psalms 56:6. Chandler....
PSALMS 59 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Beleaguered Psalmist Prays for Rescue and Avenging. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 59:1-5, In Praying for Rescue, the Psalmist Describes the Character and Conduct of his...
_FOR, LO, THEY LIE IN WAIT FOR MY SOUL: THE MIGHTY ARE GATHERED AGAINST ME; NOT FOR MY TRANSGRESSION, NOR FOR MY SIN, O LORD._ For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul - (1 Samuel 19:11.) THE MIGHTY -...
Title.—(RV) 'For the Chief Musician; _set_ to Al-tashheth. _A Psalm_ of David: Michtam: when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.' For the first part of the title see on Psalms 57. The s...
NOT _for_ MY TRANSGRESSION] This might express the Psalmist's conscious innocence before God, but more probably it means that he had done nothing to provoke the hostility of his enemies....
PSALMS 42:72 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end. The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...
FOR, LO, THEY LIE IN WAIT ... — Better, _for look, they have laid an ambush._ MIGHTY. — Perhaps with the idea of insolence in their strength. NOT FOR MY TRANSGRESSION ... — Better, _Without transgre...
_[Psalms 59:4]_ כִּ֤י הִנֵּ֪ה אָֽרְב֡וּ לְ נַפְשִׁ֗י...
Psalms 59:1 THE superscription makes this the earliest of David's psalms, dating from the Sauline persecution. It has many points of connection with the others of that group, but its closest affinitie...
“GOD IS MY HIGH TOWER” Psalms 59:1 This is the fifth of the _Michtams,_ or “Golden Psalms.” Compare Psalms 16:1; Psalms 56:1; Psalms
Again we have a song from the midst of peril. The singer is the object of determined, stealthy, and malignant opposition. It is divided into two parts, both ending with the same declaration, "God is m...
For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not [for] my (c) transgression, nor [for] my sin, O LORD. (c) For I am innocent toward them, and have not offended them....
_Off. Chastising thy people frequently under Moses, &c. (Berthier) --- On us. Redeeming mankind, which thou hadst condemned, for the fault of Adam, and giving us a more abundant grace, Romans v. 9. (S...
Observe, Reader, how determined the point is here to the immaculate holiness of the Lord Jesus! None but Christ could thus plead a faultless conduct....
Psalms 59 gives more the external enemies. The same wickedness is found there, but the might of human power with it. But they also must be judged, that wickedness may be set aside. Nor was it the sin...
FOR, LO, THEY LIE IN WAIT FOR MY SOUL,.... As the men did that watched his house, when Saul sent to kill him; so the Jews sought and lay in wait to take away the life of Christ; and very often was it...
For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not [for] my transgression, nor [for] my sin, O LORD. Ver. 3. _The mighty are gathered aqainst me_] The seven sons of Saul,...
_They lie in wait for my soul_ For my life, to take it away. _The mighty are gathered against me_ They are all mighty, men of honour and estates, and interest in the court and country. They are in a c...
For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul; the mighty, those possessing power and influence in the world, ARE GATHERED AGAINST ME, banded together for his destruction; NOT FOR MY TRANSGRESSION, NOR FOR MY...
PRAYER OF AN INNOCENT PERSON AGAINST THOSE WHO SEEK HIS SOUL. To the chief musician, Al-taschith, again according to the melody "Destroy not," Michtam, a poem in epigrammatic form, of David; when Sau...
1-7 In these words we hear the voice of David when a prisoner in his own house; the voice of Christ when surrounded by his merciless enemies; the voice of the church when under bondage in the world;...
Psalms 59:3 wait H693 (H8804) life H5315 mighty H5794 gather H1481 (H8799) transgression H6588 sin H2403 LORD...
HEADING (PSALMS 59:1 A). ‘For the Chief Musician; set to Al-tashheth. A Psalm of David. Michtam; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.' Like the last two Psalms this is another Psa...
CONTENTS: Complaint of the malice of enemies and comfort and confidence in God. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: Those who are for Christ's sake, harmless and innocent may expect to be hated of w...
Psalms 59:6. _They make a noise like a dog._ Mr. Jowett, in his christian researches, states, that many dogs in eastern towns have no owners; that they lie in the shade during the heat of the day, and...
DELIVER ME FROM MINE ENEMIES, O MY GOD. REVELATIONS OF THE GOOD AND BAD IN HUMAN NATURE I. The enmity of man towards man. 1. From the description that David here gives of his enemies, we learn that...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 59:1. This is an individual lament, seeking God’s protection from enemies who threaten the faithful person’s life. The title connects the psalm to...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription.—_“_To the Chief Musician, Al-taschith_.” See Introduction to Psalms 57. “_Michtam of David_.” See Introduction to Psalms 56. “_When Saul sent, and they watched the house...
EXPOSITION LIKE Psalms 56:1 and Psalms 57:1, this is a cry for deliverance out of great peril, with a final expression of confidence (verses 16, 17) that the deliverance will be granted. From the psal...
Psa 59:1-17 is another one of those "destroy not" prayers of David, when Saul sent and they watched the house to kill him. His wife, Michael, let him out of the window in a basket and David escaped. B...
1 Samuel 19:1; 1 Samuel 24:11; 1 Samuel 24:17; 1 Samuel 26:18; Act